The part of the surplus of 70,000 actual soldiers was either sent back to their hometowns with money and grain, or they were incorporated into the tuntian team and reclaimed in Guangxi, Yunnan and other places to provide military rations for the army. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the original history, after Zhang Xianzhong was shot and killed by the Qing soldiers in northern Sichuan, Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo led the rest of the Great Western Army to the south to capture the Yunnan-Guizhou area.

Through reorganization, Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo, Xu Dingguo, and other units were directly reduced to 3,400 to 7,800 people, and a large number of veterans of the imperial battalion were installed as officers at the head of each battalion, and the generals of the imperial battalion who had made great contributions in the Battle of Pingzuo were all promoted.

Huang Degong and Gao Jie are more special, not only did the treatment not be reduced, but each increased their salary by 200,000 taels per year, but there will be a pay, and the imperial court sent two overseers and two pacification envoys to their army, which were responsible for military discipline rectification and logistics transfer, and more than 1,000 auxiliary soldiers and superintendents.

Among them, the overseer who entered the Huang Degong Department was Zhang Jiayu, the former overseer of the Yangtze River Water Division, and Chen Bangyan, the overseer who entered the Gaojie Department, was the former Zhongwu Town Overseer, and the official titles of the two remained unchanged, and they belonged to the nature of flat adjustment.

For other large and small feudal towns that could be reorganized, the imperial court was very thorough, and all the cronies and subordinates of the former general of the town's general army were either executed or transferred, and were replaced by a large number of generals and colonels of the imperial camp Zhongwu Town.

Liu Chengjun, the former guerrilla of the first battalion of Zhongwu Town and Ma Xiong's deputy, was promoted to a general, responsible for commanding more than 4,000 troops of Xu Dingguo, moving to Yangzhou, and under the direct control of Yinxi.

Chen Mingyu, a guerrilla of the B Battalion of Zhongwu Town and Yan Yingyuan's deputy, was promoted to a general, responsible for commanding more than 6,000 people from Liu Liangzuo's remaining troops; Moved to Huai'an.

Li Sanshi, a guerrilla cavalry general of the second battalion of Zhongwu Town, was promoted two levels in a row to the rank of deputy general, responsible for commanding more than 10,000 people in Liu Zeqing's remaining troops. Moved to Chuzhou, Hezhou.

The Gaojie Department, which was originally stationed at the hub of the three provinces, Xuzhou, moved to Henan to Guide Mansion.

Huang Degong's department, which was originally stationed in Chuzhou and Hezhou, moved to Xuzhou.

By moving towns, mixing sand, reorganizing the army, and carding logistics and salaries, the imperial court greatly strengthened the control of the remaining four towns in Jiangbei and enhanced the cohesion of the army.

Moreover, once the reorganization is successful, the imperial court will save at least half of the military salaries and rations, the food and salaries of the 70,000 army, and the cost of ordnance, which will cost about 1 million taels of silver and 700,000 stone of grain and rice every year, which is much less than the original 15.6 million taels of silver.

When the reorganization work in Jiangbei was in full swing, Zhu Youhua was also in Beijing to reorganize the imperial camp. Coupled with the 20,000 new troops of the imperial camp not long after it became an army, the total strength of the imperial camp at this moment has broken through the 30,000 mark!

Zhu Youhua knew deeply that if he wanted to expel the Tartars and recover the Central Plains, he must have a descendant army that was truly loyal to the Son of Heaven and the imperial court.

One of the main reasons why the historical Southern Ming Dynasty failed to persist for more than a hundred years like the Southern Song Dynasty was the lack of a strong center. The reason why the Manchus were able to sweep through China was mainly because they had a strong center headed by Dolgon, and there was a force that absolutely maintained the authority of the center - the Eight Banners.

Therefore, taking advantage of the victory of the counterinsurgency and the great increase in the authority of the emperor and the center, Zhu Youhua completed the plan of cutting the feudal domain in the form of a surprise attack, successfully controlled the rest of the four towns in Jiangbei, and fully managed his own descendant army, the Imperial Camp Army.

The 30,000 imperial battalion pro-army was organized into four towns by Zhu Youhua. They are called "Zhongwu, Zhongjie, Huben, and Yulin".

Zhang Tanggong was promoted because of his merits and was awarded the title of Governor of the Second Rank of the Governor, and he still commanded the Zhongwu Army, and the combat power and equipment of Zhongwu Town far exceeded that of other new armies, and he was the main force in the main force.

Liu Zhaoji, the chief soldier, was older and more prestigious, and was awarded the rank of governor of Tongzhi and commanded the loyal army.

Ma Xiong, the former commander of the A Battalion of Zhongwu Town, was promoted to chief officer for meritorious service and was responsible for commanding the Tiger Army.

Yan Yingyuan, the former commander of the second battalion of Zhongwu Town, was promoted to deputy general for his merits, and was responsible for commanding the Yulin Army with the rank of deputy general.

Each of the four towns has more than 7,000 to 8,000 soldiers and horses. In addition to the well-equipped Zhongwu Army, the equipment of the other three towns is relatively simple, and a large number of ordnance from Zuo Liangyu, Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo and other departments have been collected, which can be able to give each person a waist knife, a spear, more than 4,000 qualified bird guns, more than 2,000 pairs of iron armor, more than 8,000 pairs of cotton armor and leather armor, nearly 200 large and small artillery, and more than 4,000 war horses, of which bows and crossbows and three-eyed guns are not counted.

The equipment seems to be a lot, but in fact, half of it needs to be allocated to the rest of the towns, so it is definitely impossible for them to meet the enemy barefoot and barehanded, and they must always leave some good equipment for them, not to mention that Liu Zeqing and the rest of Liu Liangzuo are controlled by the imperial court at this moment, and increasing their combat power is also increasing the combat power of the imperial court.

Therefore, the number of armor and artillery horses that were really transferred to the hands of the imperial camp was not large, and there was still a big gap in the equipment of the 30,000 imperial battalion.

Fortunately, now the central household department and the large memory of nearly 40 million taels of silver, the absolute wealth is abundant, Zhu Youhua waved a big pen, ordered Pang Tianshou to take 2 million taels to continue to Macao to purchase and order ordnance, Macao ordnance is not enough, so go to Foshan, Guangdong to purchase and order, more customized turtledove guns and Franc machine artillery (Macao half a year ago ordnance was basically purchased, visual inventory is not much. ）

As early as a few months ago, he ordered Ma Shiying to get all the blacksmiths, gunsmiths, and gunsmiths of the southern provinces' guard posts, as well as iron-smelting furnaces, blasts, and other iron-making equipment, to the Nanjing Ordnance Supervisor, and under the guidance of the Portuguese gunsmiths and gunsmiths, he was responsible for building all kinds of firearms and artillery. At the same time, the captured, damaged, and corroded weapons on the battlefield will be re-polished and re-tempered, and wasted for recycling.

Over the past few months, more than 1,000 blacksmiths, gunsmiths, gunsmiths, and other artisans have been sent to the provinces, all dressed in rags, with yellow faces and thin muscles, like an army of beggars.

They are all hereditary artisans, more than 200 years later, the status has fallen to the extent that even the military households are inferior, the military households at least have food and salary to get, but they can't get a single copper, do a good job is right, do not do well and have to be punished, life is more and more difficult day by day.